SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 14, 2022—On June 8, President Biden nominated Santa Clara University School of Law Professor Catherine Sandoval—an advocate and leader in public-infrastructure safety for decades— to be a member of the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB). The board…
Colleen Chien‘s paper “The Inequalities of Innovation” was quoted in a VICE article about psychedelic patents being broken because the patent system is broken.
Stephen Diamond spoke with KTVU news about Elon Musk possibly walking away from the deal to buy Twitter, due to a dispute with the company over the number fake accounts. Musk’s attorneys accused Twitter of withholding data from Musk, as…
Eric Goldman spoke with Bloomberg about family suing TikTok over the death of a 10-year-old girl who allegedly participated in an online challenge; to Protocol about Texas’ social media “censorship” law; to the Washington Post about how the future of…
Margaret Russell spoke with KQED about the draft Supreme Court opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade. “It’s been an extremely difficult couple of days. I’ve spoken with a lot of students, male and female, but particularly the female students…
Ruth Silver Taube wrote an article for San Jose Spotlight about California bill AB 257, the Fast Food Accountability and Standards Recovery Act. On Jan. 1, 2021, 20 states and 32 cities and counties raised their minimum wage. In 27…
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) will be hosting a panel with two of HTLI’s Co-Directors, Professor Laura Lee Norris and Professor Colleen Chien. The upcoming USPTO panel will discuss issues impacting the intellectual property community and how the USPTO can serve…
David Sloss wrote an op-ed for The Diplomat arguing that the United States should ban Chinese and Russian state media companies from large social media platforms. “Chinese state media companies are spreading false and misleading narratives about the war in…
Stephen Diamond spoke to MarketWatch about Elon Musk apparently suffering from buyer’s remorse and saying the deal is “on hold”. “There is no procedural step in the closing of a company that is called ‘deal on hold,’ there is ‘no…
Margaret Russell spoke with KQED about the governors of Maryland and Virginia urging the Department of Justice to tighten security outside Supreme Court justices’ homes after after the leaking of a draft Supreme Court opinion that would overturn Roe v.…
